Open AccessChinese Experts Consensus on Pre-examination and Triage in Dermatology Clinics during the COVID-19 Outbreak#
Author(s) -
Hui Zhang,
Hai Long,
Lin Ma,
Gang Wang,
Qiri Mu,
Yuping Ran,
Quanzhong Liu,
Shengxiang Xiao,
Xuejun Zhang,
Jianzhong Zhang,
Furen Zhang,
Li He,
Aijun Chen,
Xiang Chen,
Jie Zheng,
Ruifu Yang,
Zhirong Yao,
Ping Tu,
Yuzhen Li,
Xinghua Gao,
Jinhua Xu,
Heng Gu,
Bo Cheng,
Lai Wei,
Qianjin Lu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology and venereology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2641-8746
pISSN - 2096-5540
DOI - 10.1097/jd9.0000000000000084
Subject(s) - triage , covid-19 , medicine , outbreak , dermatology , pandemic , coronavirus , disease , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
The 2019 novel coronavirus infection has brought a great challenge in prevention and control of the national epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. During the fight against the epidemic of COVID-19, properly carrying out pre-examination and triage for patients with skin lesions and fever has been a practical problem encountered in hospitals for skin diseases as well as clinics of dermatology in general hospitals. Considering that certain skin diseases may have symptom of fever, and some of the carriers of 2019 novel coronavirus and patients with COVID-19 at their early stage may do not present any symptoms of COVID-19, to properly deal with the visitors to clinics of dermatology, the Chinese Society of Dermatology organized experts to formulate the principles and procedures for pre-examination and triage of visitors to clinics of dermatology during the epidemic of COVID-19.